unfortunately

Multi award-winning company ThisEgg will return to Shoreditch Town Hall with unfortunately, a bold new production exploring one of modern life’s last taboos: money. Combining catwalk inspired visuals and theatre, this new work examines how money quietly shapes our identities, relationships and sense of worth. Using wit, humour and emotional honesty, unfortunately invites audiences to reconsider not only what money means but what – and who - we truly value. 

Presented through a deliberately non-linear theatrical landscape, unfortunately unravels the ways capitalism influences who we are, how we connect with one another and the stories we tell ourselves about success, security and worth. Rather than offering answers, the production creates space for curiosity and collective reflection around a subject that remains surprisingly difficult to discuss.

Josie Dale-Jones comments, I find the feeling of trying to engage with capitalism completely overwhelming. I find our relationship with money impossible to understand. I don’t think I think money is bad, but I do wonder if we could be using it better. I wanted to make something that looks directly at the human impact behind our transactions. Something that re-engages us with what the way we spend, save, share and earn money tells us about ourselves. Something that exposes the reality of what we value in the financial decisions we make – and have fun with it too! 

Alongside the production, ThisEgg is partnering with Debt Justice, the national organisation working to end unjust debt to present a series of free workshops exploring the debt, power and inequality. Sessions include Ban the Bailiffs: How to Resist Bailiffs in Your Local Community (Saturday 22nd August, Tuesday 29th September) and Debt, Colonialism and the Climate Crisis (Saturday 26th September, Sunday 4th October). Offering practical tools and a shared space for collective action, the workshops extend the conversations explored in unfortunately beyond the stage, reflecting ThisEgg and Shoreditch Town Hall’s commitment to using theatre as a catalyst for connection and social change.

Where: Shoreditch Town Hall, London, EC1V 9LT

When: Tuesday 22nd - Saturday 26th September 2026

Tickets:

• £200 - Philanthropist
  £50 - Disposable Income 
  £20 - Standard
  £10 - Subsidised 

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